Remembering Lives Lived Wholeheartedly, Okinawa Airakuen 1975 | Mikio Suzuki | Aka Aka 2025

Remembering Lives Lived Wholeheartedly, Okinawa Airakuen 1975 | Mikio Suzuki | Aka Aka 2025"You know, there's a leprosy colony in Okinawa called Airakuen. People there suffer greatly from discrimination and prejudice. Go and take photographs that will rectify that. The director is a friend of mine, so I'll write a letter of introduction for you." Suzuki was invited to photograph the loprosy colony in Okinawa. He made several visits in Airakuen from 1974 and 1976. "The photographs taken at Airakuen amounted to approximately 2,300 individual

This work superimposes wartime and postwar newspapers with Yasukuni Shrine

the 100th anniversary of Otsuji Kiyoji's birth

The inside of the book is clean

This selection features six works from this series

Or maybe that's really the case

I wanted the book to feel like an ancient Chinese manuscript

she knows exactly what is good for the body

' "I don't feel like I just reproduced the scenery I took on paper

His nightly shots focuses on the eclectic fashion

well-presented by a naked Katya Clover

'A nuclear warhead named Mary's Lamb was deployed on Chichijima under U

” - From Haruto Hoshi’s afterword